This is getting some press:

Ephrata man convicted of beating wife with wooden paddle for refusing to call him “sir”

An Ephrata man was jailed Wednesday for beating his wife when she didn’t address him as “Sir” in front of their kids.

Dan Kirby Kopp, 49, routinely beat his wife with a wooden paddle or his hand as a way of disciplining her for not showing proper “respect,” according to investigators.

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I’d bet almost anything that this guy is a fundamentalist and part of the submissive wives movement.